Chapter 54: In the Hospital Room (1)

“Can’t you even tell whether blood is coming out from the front or the back?”

Far away, by the window with a view of the sea.

I was leaning against the bed next to it, listening to a scolding.

“This idiot, if you keep watching, you pretend to be smart and do dumb things in the most important parts.”

“…Stop it already.”

“You need to be scolded more, that’s how you’ll come to your senses.”

It’s been three days since I was admitted to the university hospital.

I was going in and out of the bathroom all night because of the blood pouring out at all times, and only yesterday evening did my condition finally improve.

And only after my condition improved a little could I look around at the surrounding situation.

[??? No broadcast?]

[Hiro, is something wrong?]

[Went to meet a man]

[Is it a man?]

[Explain]

[Explain]

[Explain]

[Explain]

[It’s the first time you’ve taken a break without even posting a notice]

[She’s probably f*cking, right?]

Because I left without saying a word to the viewers or even the people around me, my cafe was full of all sorts of speculation.

Most of them were saying things like I secretly went to meet a man, but I didn’t care much because I knew the words were a joke.

Well… some of them might be serious, but most of them are.

So, as soon as my condition improved, I posted a notice first.

[(Notice) Temporary Suspension of Broadcasting Due to Hospitalization]

[Hello, this is Hiro.

First of all, I apologize for taking a break for two days without saying anything, or three days if you include what I said in advance.

I thought it was my period because blood was coming out and my stomach hurt, so I posted a notice about taking a break….

But it turns out that bleeding occurred in my intestines, according to the hospital.

So I’m currently hospitalized with an IV drip.

My condition was so bad yesterday and the day before that I couldn’t post a notice.

I apologize again and will come back healthy.

I’ll post another notice when I resume broadcasting.]

When I posted on the cafe with my phone to quell the speculation, a considerable number of comments flooded the post, despite it being a weekday afternoon.

[Oh… get plenty of rest and come back. I’ll be waiting for you]

[You broadcast and work, broadcast and work like that, there’s no way you wouldn’t get sick. Get plenty of rest and see you again]

[Hiro, your health comes first.]

[Hiro, I told you to take care of your body so many times….]

[Get well and see you Hiro!]

[Hospitalization fees are no joke, check your insurance while you’re hospitalized]

Most of them were comments worrying about me, but

[Lies ㄴ]

[Was the man you met a doctor?]

[Hoo… If he’s a doctor, there’s no choice. I admit defeat.]

[You have to be happy with that person Hiro….]

[What is it? Does that mean you’re playing doctor?]

Even in the midst of that, there were people teasing me.

Well, what can I do, there are more people, and the people I accepted were those kinds of people.

After posting the notice and contacting my acquaintances, the employees came to visit me first.

“Hey, are you alive? How are you?”

“Boss, are you okay?”

“…Boss, are you alive?”

A boss whose employees come to visit like this….

I must have accumulated quite a bit of virtue, so I felt good for no reason.

“Oh oh… you all came together?”

“We always get together and drink, so of course we’d all come together.”

“I said it in the group chat, didn’t you see it?”

“Huh? Group chat??”

I opened my phone and checked the messenger at Ara’s words.

There were only a few words in the group chat saying to take care of myself, and nothing else.

Especially the part about the three of them getting together.

“…Hey, you guys.”

When I turned my gaze from the phone to the three of them, Cha-in and Bo-yeon were glaring at Ara as if they were going to kill her.

Ara didn’t know what to do and was hesitating….

“You guys… by any chance did you make a group chat without me?”

At my question, Cha-in smiled without batting an eye.

“Hey hey, what fruit do you want to eat? What do you like?”

“No, don’t change the subject, you guys made a group chat without me, you b*stard.”

“Do you want to eat a banana?”

“…I can’t eat anything right now.”

Did they really make a group chat without me…?

I think I’ll really get hurt if they did.

But I thought it was good that they came to visit me together like this, so I decided not to ask any further.

No matter how comfortably I get along with them, I’m still the boss, so there must be things that only employees can talk about.

“So what did the doctor say?”

Cha-in casually brought a chair from the side and sat down, and Ara and Bo-yeon took out the auxiliary bed for guardians under the bed and sat on it.

“Well… what was it? They said there’s a high possibility that it’s Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, but the symptoms are similar, so they have to do a detailed examination.”

“Ulcerative colitis is a combination of words I’ve heard often, but what’s Crohn’s disease?”

“They both said they’re rare diseases? But not like super rare diseases.”

It’s already been 4 months since I became a woman.

One of the things that is always mentioned in TS stories is the period episode, and I was strangely wondering why I wasn’t getting my period.

In the meantime, I was covered in blood without realizing it, so wouldn’t it be normal to think it was my period?

So even when the pain got worse, I thought that’s how periods are, and I missed the timing to go to the hospital.

How could I have guessed that it wasn’t just hemorrhoids, but a disease where blood was pouring out from the intestines themselves….

“So what do I have to do? Can I just stay like this and leave the hospital?”

“No? They said I have to stay like this with an IV drip without eating anything until I can eat.”

“Water too?”

“Water too. So I’m just wetting my lips and spitting it out again.”

“Wow… that must be hard.”

“Boss… just wet your lips….”

In fact, I was living with an IV drip for 3 days without drinking a single drop of water.

What’s amazing is that even if I don’t drink water, I’m not really thirsty because it’s being supplied through my blood vessels?

And it was also amazing that I didn’t feel hungry or hear gurgling sounds even though I was supplying nutrients with only an IV drip without eating anything.

“But they said I have to keep managing it for about a month even after I leave the hospital later.”

As I continued to talk, I somehow felt tired and tilted the backrest of the bed and laid down.

As I laid down, I felt like my tired body was floating, and my eyes naturally tried to close, but I opened my eyes again at Ara’s voice coming from the side.

“Management? Are you talking about the kind of thing you hear every time you go to the hospital, like reducing greasy food and not drinking alcohol… that kind of thing?”

“Umm- that’s roughly right.”

Stay away from alcohol and cigarettes.

Don’t eat greasy food.

Don’t overeat and eat three meals a day well.

It was honestly a cliche comment that I would hear even if I went to the hospital with a cut on my finger, but in my case, it was a little different.

“Patient, what kind of foods have you eaten recently?”

“Uh… recently, Buldak ramen and… mala soup? and hot pepper chicken….”

“….”

“Oh, right! I drank a lot of yogurt while eating spicy food, could that have had some kind of effect?”

“Ha. ha. Maybe it could have…. Then have you been stressed or overworked recently?”

“Stress… I had a case related to a lawsuit recently, so I went back and forth to the police station a bit, but like that? I don’t think it was stress….”

“…And? Is there anything else?”

“And I think I’ve been drinking a lot of caffeinated drinks lately because I’ve been busy with work….”

“How much did you drink?”

“Per day”

“One can per day?”

“No, about 3 cans per day, 1 can for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.”

“….”

The doctor sighed after hearing my words and said that I would die if I lived like that.

“Let’s watch the progress for a while while taking a rest as much as possible.”

“Um… doctor?”

“Yes?”

“Then when can I leave the hospital and go back to work?”

“…You should still take a rest for a while. First, let’s get IV drips, and if it gets better, let’s eat thin porridge. And even after you leave the hospital, you have to adjust your diet….”

The doctor said

Alcohol, cigarettes, greasy food, and spicy food, as well as vegetables with a lot of fiber, are prohibited because they are not absorbed.

Drinking too much water is also restricted because it is not absorbed.

In other words, you can only eat foods that don’t make your large intestine move when you eat them.

If the large intestine moves, inflammation will recur and bleeding will occur.

When I told that story, Bo-yeon, who was listening next to me, said sadly.

“Then you can’t get it?”

“…Yeon-ah, aren’t you too addicted to drinking?”

Late wind is scary

Bo-yeon, who had no opportunity to go to drinking parties because she didn’t go to college, wanted to drink with me whenever she had the chance.

It’s cute, but I don’t know if she’s going to ruin her liver like that.

I and the three of them had a lot of pointless conversations for a long time, and

When the sun began to set and it was time to end the visiting hours, the three of them left the hospital room with light greetings.

“…Hoo.”

The hospital room became quiet.

I was used to being alone, but for some reason I felt a little lonely today.

I fiddled with my phone.

I turned the window off and on and looked at the messenger screen, but no messages came.

“I guess he’s really not coming….”

Thinking of the person who didn’t even send a message, let alone visit me, I laid down on the bed.

My tired body led me to dreamland, regardless of my heart.